Quick glance of 29 March in the pages of History

March 29: Here are the major events that occurred on 29 March….

• 29 March, 1461: Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton – Duke Edward of York defeats the Lancastrian army, deposes King Henry VI and Queen Margaret of Anjou and proclaims himself as King Edward IV.
• 29 March, 1848: Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam.
• 29 March, 1857: The Indian Mutiny against British rule in India had been begun by Indian troops (sepoys) that were in the service of the British East India Company. On March 29th, 1857 the sepoy Mangal Pandy of the 34th Native Infantry refused orders on the parade ground at Barrackpore and revolted. He was hanged for involving in Mutiny against British Rule.
• 29 March, 1871: Royal Albert Hall opened by Queen Victoria in London.
• 29 March, 1912: Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary “the end cannot be far”.
• 29 March, 1929: Utpal Dutt, a talented and versatile actor who was equally comfortable acting on stage and in front of the camera, was born on this day in Calcutta.
• 29 March, 1974: Chinese farmers discover the Terracotta Army near Xi’an, 8,000 clay warrior statues buried to guard the tomb of China’s 1st emperor, Qin Shi Huang.
• 29 March, 1982: An earthquake and a volcanic eruption at El Chichon in southern Mexico, kills many thousands. The eruptions, which continued for over a week, caught many local people unaware and unprepared as the last time the Volcano had erupted was 130 years earlier.
• 29 March, 1982:  Vasco da Gama Road bridge opens in Lisbon, Portugal as the longest bridge in Europe.
• 29 March, 2006: A total solar eclipse of has taken place around the world, and observers have been able to see it from 08.36 to 11.46 G.M.T. in places like Eastern Brazil, Western and North Africa, Turkey, Central Asia and Mongolia.